INDEX. 



119 



Fruit, distribution of trees, 14 



varieties for fields and hedge- 

 rows, 15 



stations and planting, 16 



staking trees, 16 



gardens, trees for, 17 



thinning, 111 



gathering, 112 



storing, 113 



handling, 113 



marketing, 114 



Fruits, value of small or bush, 20, 

 21 



kinds not of value to cottagers, 



105 



Gathering fruit, 112 



Gooseberries, raising from cut- 

 tings, 44 



pruning trees, 45, 46, 47 



suckers, 45, 46 



spurs and young wood, 48 



half pruned bush, 50 



cropping and summer pruning, 



50,51 



value of crops, 52 



for hedges, walls, or fences, 52, 



53 



soil and manuring, 54 



good varieties, 54 



enemies of, 55 



painting and liming bushes, 



vu 



destroying and preventing 



caterpillars, 55 



Grafting fruit trees, 108, 109, 110 

 wax, 110, 111 



Hellebore solution 90 



Insects and remedies, 55, 66, 89, 

 90, 96, 97, 102, 103 



Keeping fruit, 114 



Land values and fruit, 3, 11, 117 

 Lime washing fruit trees, 9 1 



water, how to make, 97 



Liquid manure, 28, 108 



Manures for fruit trees, 106, 107 

 Marketing fruit, 114 

 Methylated spirit, 96 

 Mildew, destroying, 103 



Nitrate of potash, 107 



Obstacles to fruit culture, 2 

 Orchards, character of British, 1 



Paris green, 90 



Pears, Quince and Pear stocks, 91 



varieties for orchards, 91 



varieties for bush or garden 



culture, 92 



a good tree, 93 



value of crop, 94 



pruning, 95 



trees for walls, 95 



cordon trees, 96 



enemies and remedies, 96 



Petroleum mixture, 90, 96 



Plan of fruit and vegetable garden, 7 



of fruit garden, 19 



Planting fruit trees, 16 



distances for, 1 9 



Plums, usefulness of, 97 



value of fruit, 98 



good varieties, 98, 99 



cultural routine, 99 



tree pruned and bearing, 100 



fruit spurs, 101 



wood and blossom buds, 102 



enemies and remedies, 102 



Produce from small garden, 9 



Quassia water, 103 



Raspberries, errors in manage- 

 ment, 33 



digging amongst injurious, 34 



rational methods of culture, 



35 



soil for, 35 



character of roots, 36 



planting and shortening canes, 



36, 37 



choosing canes, 38 



watering and mulching, 39 



summer management, 39 



thinning suckers, 40 



removing canes after fruiting, 



40 



winter work and pruning, 40 



bush in bearing, 41 



lines of, 42 



- training the canes, 42 



- ' self supporting canes, 42 

 varieties of, 42, 43 



